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I think that it is pretty cool that being in high school and in college are somewhat similar but different in high school you get mostly everything for free but in college you would have to purchase most books.
My hope is that someday more academic information will be freely available. Until then - we should all be part of this fight.
It is nice that they provide the money for us to get these books to learn more but hopefully they will give us more free academic information in the future.
We are active users of technology - I am teaching and you are learning online. When we're submerged in this kind of environment, it's sometimes easy to forget that what's known as the digital divide still exists
we are divided because people are so used to using technology for everything now days.
Academic publishing is big business. These companies are making billions of dollars. You've undoubtedly been directly impacted by this; you've likely faced decisions on whether to buy a $100+ textbook that is required for a course.
Reading a book online or even buying one would be much cheaper then buying a book at a store which would cost more then 100$.